Empathy is Perspective in Action!

Empathy for others 

is 

perspective in action!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Empathy is the ability to mutually experience the thoughts, emotions, and direct experience of others. It goes beyond sympathy, which is a feeling of care and understanding for the suffering of others. Both words have similar usage but differ in their emotional meaning.http://www.diffen.com/difference/Empathy_vs_Sympathy

Are You Empathic? 3 Types of Empathy and What They Mean  http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/201108/are-you-empathic-3-types-empathy-and-what-they-mean

Discover Wisdom. Enjoy the journey!

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves 

after a journey 

that no one can take for us 

or spare us.” 

~Marcel Proust

Understanding & Forgiveness...

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes.

~Ludwig Van Beethoven

The Most Rare and Valuable Gifts...

What we truly appreciate in life; rarely are the things that can be bought. 

The things that are given freely from the heart and soul,

are the most rare and valuable gifts to share and receive.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

What Is A Friend?

"A true friend knows your weaknesses

but shows you your strengths;

feels your fears

but fortifies your faith;

sees your anxieties 

but frees your spirit;

 recognizes your disabilities

but emphasizes your possibilities." 

~William Arthur Ward 

To learn more about the various types of friendships worldwide, and their specific meanings, please visit here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

To share what friendship means to you, and how you define it, please use the comment box below.  

Who has been your best friend, in the past or present, and what has made or makes it so?

Forgiveness = Freedom & Peace

“When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. 

Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

~Catherine Ponder

Ponder wrote her first prosperity book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity in the early 1960s whilst living in Birmingham, Alabama. Her life expanded dramatically whilst she was in the midst of finishing that book. She married and moved to the southwest, where her husband taught at the University of Texas. Much later, after her husband's death, her life changed again. In the early 1970s, another move took her to San Antonio, Texas. There she remarried and wrote a sequel to that earlier book, entitled Open Your Mind to Prosperity.

This is just an excerpt of her biography.  To read the complete version, please visit:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ponder

Compassionate Understanding...

People need loving the most 

when they deserve it the least. 

~John Harrigan 

Universal Language...

Many languages are spoken here, 
but the universal language 
has no words. 


 ~Kim Franklin-Magana

Understand...

It is in identifying yourself 
with the hopes, dreams, fears and longings of others 
that you may understand them 
and help them.

~Wilferd A. Peterson 
(August 21, 1900 - June 2, 1995)

Exerpt taken from his biography:  His greatest influences from other writers and philosophers include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, among many others. His contemporaries include Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie, and current writers and philosophers such as Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy have referred to Wilferd Peterson's works.

Experience

“A new broom sweeps clean,

but the old broom knows the corners.”

~Irish Proverb